IN CALIFORNIA, 66 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 43 COUNTIES HAVE SOME TYPE OF MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLIED $1.4 MILLION IN 1966, WHICH PROVIDED SOME ASSISTANCE TO 10,000 OF THE ESTIMATED 78,000 MIGRANT CHILDREN. A THREE-COUNTY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT CONDUCTED BY 14 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PROVIDED--(1)…

A PLAN IS PRESENTED FOR REDESIGNING THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, BASED PRIMARILY ON THE USE OF FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING, THE REVISION OF COURSE CONTENT AND ACTIVITIES, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MINIMUM SEQUENCES OF 6 YEARS IN MODERN LANGUAGES AND 4 YEARS IN LATIN. TOPICS DISCUSSED ARE (1) THE VALUES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE…

A READING PROGRAM DESIGNED FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND CONDUCTED BY THE LIGHTHOUSE, A SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA, AS PART OF ITS DAY CAMP PROGRAM WAS DESCRIBED AND ASSESSED. THE READING PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED (1) TO BOOST THE OPPORTUNITIES IN READING READINESS FOR CHILDREN ABOUT TO ENTER FIRST GRADE, (2) TO ENRICH LANGUAGE…

This bibliography is intended to provide the educational researcher, classroom teacher, and school administrator with information that will enable them to instigate a peer tutorial program. It includes articles on forms of tutoring that have potential for the involvement of children as tutors, such as structured tutoring and programed tutoring.…

A variety of components that operate in tutoring writing are examined in this paper. Discussed are (1) the importance of the tutor's language, tone of voice, and verbal interaction with the students; (2) active listening techniques; (3) establishing an atmosphere of trust and acceptance; (4) helping students develop a framework for understanding…

When students submit their writing for evaluation, teachers too often respond in fixed ways that create images of the evaluator as preacher, as police officer, as stenographer, as computer specialist, or as obsessive-compulsive. Instead of creating a fixed, or "tied," image that promotes predictable, stereotyped student responses, teachers may…

THE FIRST TEACHING MACHINE WAS INVENTED IN THE 1920'S BY SIDNEY L. PRESSEY AND THE FIRST MODERN TEACHING MACHINE WAS DEVELOPED AND POPULARIZED IN THE EARLY 1930'S BY B.F. SKINNER. TODAY BUSINESSMEN AND INDUSTRIALISTS AS WELL AS EDUCATORS HAVE FOUND TEACHING MACHINES USEFUL. ACTUALLY, TEACHING IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE PROGRAM, A CAREFULLY…

MANY CHANGES HAVE BEEN EFFECTED IN THE POSTURE, PURPOSES, AND PROGRAMS OF AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION DURING THE LAST 15 YEARS. NEVERTHELESS, THERE ARE STILL MANY PERPLEXING PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED. WHAT IS NEEDED IS A PRACTICAL PROGRAM ADVANCED BY POSITIVE LEADERSHIP. SIX RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A PROGRESSIVE AGENDA IN EDUCATION WHICH DEMAND ATTENTION…

Perceptions of the 4-H club agent's role were studied from the viewpoint of club agents, county coworkers, supervisors, and officers of county leader's organizations. Data were obtained through personal or group interviews with 189 respondents. Forty job activities were classified into the four categories of (1) planning and evaluating club…

A symposium of industrial, governmental, and academic leaders was held to consider new technological devices and systems and to develop guidelines for teachers and school administrators on how to prepare for the coming age of technology in education. Topics under consideration included educational objectives, the historical and sociological…

This document, which reports a conference on planning a curriculum for adult education, directs attention to areas of study covered in a major field, contributions of fields such as psychology and sociology to the education of an adult leader, research competencies adult educators should have and the kind of research they should produce, the…

A functional job-related reading program was developed to cope with literacy problems of Army personnel; the program involves students who work individually on instructional worksheets in six main modules, each designed to teach a specific job-related reading task. This paper presents an overview of background research for the program, which was…

This three year study compared three organizational plans for teaching remedial reading by spending one year each at different grade levels: primary, intermediate, and seven-eight, in that order. In the first plan a reading consultant tutored childen individually in a reading clinic. In the second plan a master reading teacher provided aid in…

This is the student edition of EA 007 343. It provides the student with a detailed record of his educational progress. (Author/IRT)

The principles and philosophy of vocational education are presented in this document in programed instruction form for use by potential vocational education teachers in teacher preparation courses in colleges or universities. Orientation and basic terminology is included under headings of: (1) The Place of Vocational Education, (2) Vocational…